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The Move (Again)

So in anticipation of the new house (see postings passim) actually going ahead, we spent a disturbingly lengthy stint on Saturday giving the bedroom a going over. This involved getting everything out of the surprisingly capacious cupboard, the various drawers and the space under the bed, and deciding to keep it or bin it. The object of the exercise is that when the movers come we can just say "everything in that room is to go" secure in the knowledge that we won't be taking tons of stuff we don't actually either want or need. We're moving on to do the same in the other rooms the evenings of this week.

I'm very keen on this plan, as having done something similar as I was clearing out my old flat a couple of months ago I'd realised exactly how much junk it's possible to accumulate. I've got everything I wanted to take out of a one bedroom flat (barring furniture) into a pretty small storage space. The rest went in the bin. I was quite impressed with my own ruthlessness, but this is precisely the quality that has to be applied in the circumstances. As the Mrs said on Saturday "No sentimentality!". The end result was bags and bags of rubbish and a much less cluttered space.

We've been saying for a while (and it's obviously partly the motivation for the move) that we've filled the flat, and it's true that we simply didn't have the space to put away a lot of the things we own, even allowing for the attic, which is also pretty well loaded. Now, in one room at least, we have space to breath again. It's a sad fact that there's so much stuff in a home that it's so easy to accumulate unnecessarily.